Good!
Yeah. Safari lags immensely on animation-heavy websites or even websites with a lot of graphics, whereas there are no issues in Firefox or Chromium-based browsers. I like Safari, but it's too slow for website content to make it my main browser. It's perfectly fine on iOS, though. I mainly use Brave on macOS. For me to go back to Safari, they need to drastically improve the page performance for graphically heavy websites. Safari for macOS is lightning fast on normal websites otherwise.
It's (probably) for the "I've told you a thousand times Gmail, I'm not going to switch to Chrome" popups and StackOverflow "please please please accept more cookies" nagware and Reddit taking up 1/3 of the screen to demand I login via Google on every visit.
Safari lags and seems quite RAM hungry in recent years. It's what I prefer but is difficult at times to use. Have changed from using a dozen tabs to using bookmarks and the reading list. If I don't then RAM pressure remains in the yellow for extended periods of time.
Nothing you can't already accomplish from altering the CSS with a browser addon like Stylus...
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{
display: none;
}When Apple allows iOS to use the full (android) version of Firefox, you'll find a number of different add-ons like uBlock that allows you to do this. Sometimes it's great, sometimes not. But having the option is always great.
It is unclear from this article what any of these features have to do with "AI".
Safari will gain a series of AI-powered features and UI enhancements in iOS 18, AppleInsider reports.
Safari will apparently receive a range of visual tweaks alongside several new tools to improve the browsing experience, including:
- An "Intelligent Search" browser assistant tool that leverages Apple's on-device AI technology to identify key topics and phrases on webpages for summarization purposes.
- A "Web Eraser" tool that allows users to remove unwanted portions of webpages easily. Erasure is persistent, remaining even when revisiting a site unless changes are reverted.
- A new, quick-access menu emerging from the address bar that consolidates page tools, bringing over some functions that currently sit in the Share Sheet and placing them alongside the new tools.
The iPadOS and macOS versions of Safari are also expected to align further. These new features are purportedly undergoing evaluation alongside internal builds of iOS 18 and macOS 15 ahead of their unveiling at Apple's Worldwide Developer's Conference (WWDC) in June. Earlier this month, backend code on Apple's servers suggested that a new Safari browsing assistant is in the works, corroborating this report.
Farther in the future, Apple is said to be working on a more powerful version of Visual Look Up that allows users to obtain information on products when browsing through images. The feature is expected to be released sometime in 2025.
Last week, Bloomberg's Mark Gurman said that iOS 18 will "overhaul" many of Apple's built-in apps, including Notes, Mail, Photos, and Fitness. Apple's next-generation operating systems are almost certain to be previewed during Apple's WWDC keynote on June 10, and the updates should be widely released in the fall.
Article Link: New AI Features Reportedly Coming to Safari in iOS 18
Don't forget to add !important and to make the CSS specific enough to apply the overrides.
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}
The problem is that the word "AI" is meaningless. Is Eliza "AI"?
Yes, I'm aware AI is a buzzword. That doesn't change the fact that "AI" isn't going anywhere.
They… do. It’s called “full page”. It’s a slider/toggle right in the screenshot preview
Does Arc have and iOS app? I haven’t checked for a while, but I thought that it didn’t have one.
What I’d really like is some way to access my personal Safari profile from my employer’s macbook, which is logged in under a separate “work” Apple id.
Safari will gain a series of AI-powered features and UI enhancements in iOS 18, AppleInsider reports.
Safari will apparently receive a range of visual tweaks alongside several new tools to improve the browsing experience, including:
- An "Intelligent Search" browser assistant tool that leverages Apple's on-device AI technology to identify key topics and phrases on webpages for summarization purposes.
- A "Web Eraser" tool that allows users to remove unwanted portions of webpages easily. Erasure is persistent, remaining even when revisiting a site unless changes are reverted.
- A new, quick-access menu emerging from the address bar that consolidates page tools, bringing over some functions that currently sit in the Share Sheet and placing them alongside the new tools.
The iPadOS and macOS versions of Safari are also expected to align further. These new features are purportedly undergoing evaluation alongside internal builds of iOS 18 and macOS 15 ahead of their unveiling at Apple's Worldwide Developer's Conference (WWDC) in June. Earlier this month, backend code on Apple's servers suggested that a new Safari browsing assistant is in the works, corroborating this report.
Farther in the future, Apple is said to be working on a more powerful version of Visual Look Up that allows users to obtain information on products when browsing through images. The feature is expected to be released sometime in 2025.
Last week, Bloomberg's Mark Gurman said that iOS 18 will "overhaul" many of Apple's built-in apps, including Notes, Mail, Photos, and Fitness. Apple's next-generation operating systems are almost certain to be previewed during Apple's WWDC keynote on June 10, and the updates should be widely released in the fall.
Article Link: New AI Features Reportedly Coming to Safari in iOS 18
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I don’t think they are opposed to the background Machine Learning processes. I think everyone is starting to get annoyed with the generative ML bots pushing “suggestions”, popping up like you’re asking it, anytime you start to type something with the same letters as the name of the bot.
Machine Learning isn’t a fad and has been around a long time. It’s been in MacOS and iOS for a long time as well. In everything from the camera app, photos app, and location/time sensitive notifications in apps. ML cores have been in Apple A series processors for a while.
I think it’s just the annoying AI bots being smashed all over everything coupled with bizarre UI choices that make apps more complicated to navigate. Then there’s curious choices like Contact Posters. The notion that you design a poster that takes over my phone’s screen when you call- really, Apple?
